World War I was a war of many technological innovations when rifles and artillery-like cannons were created and used in the narrow trenches. For the same reason, forces had to come up with weapons that could effectively be used in those foxholes dug into the ground. This war involved a lot of sneaking into the […]
Weapons
Russia Once Used Schoolchildren To Bug The US Embassy In Moscow
It was August 4, 1945. World War II had just been won on the European fronts in what was one of the proudest moments the United States would share with the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. This friendship between the Kremlin and the United States is one that is rarely seen today, but yes—it […]
Iron Dome Too Expensive, Israel Develops Laser Wall For Cost-Effectiveness
After its world-renowned success with the Iron Dome, its counter-rocket, artillery, and mortar (C-RAM) system with a 90% success rate defending against incoming missiles, Israel wants to up the ante by supplementing its air defense systems with a new, comprehensive, high-powered laser wall system that can be cost-effective to use when compared to the exorbitantly […]
Project X-Ray: When The US Tried To Use Bats To Drop Bombs In Japan During WWII
Animals have always been involved one way or another whenever there is human conflict— there were horses, elephants, and smaller ones like pigeons, dogs, rats. We’ve always come up with plans to weaponize them in ways that were never seen before. One unpopular experimental weapon developed by the United States of America during World War […]
China Developing ‘Brain Control Weapons’ For Future Wars
It sounds like something that came out of a sci-fi movie, but Brain control weapons are slowly coming to life through Chinese research and the development of biotechnology that can disorient enemies and make them easier to subdue. These types of weapons can potentially change the way we traditionally think about warfare in the future, […]
Meet Israel’s Reliable Air Defense System, The Iron Dome
If you’ve lived in Israel for some time now or follow the videos coming out of Israel’s military that circulate online, you’d be no stranger to those bright lights that illuminate the sky like Chinese sky lanterns. Yup, they’re pretty to look at, alright, but those aren’t lanterns. They’re Israel’s, Iron Dome. No, they’re not […]
Iran Reveals New Kheibarshekan Missile Claiming That It Can Target US Bases And Israel
Iran is claiming that it has a new missile with a range of 900 miles on Wednesday, allowing the weapon to reach nearby US bases within the Middle East and the Gulf states and potential targets within Israel. This report comes after the eighth round of US-Iranian talks resumed in Vienna regarding the Iran nuclear […]
The MOAB: The Mother Of All Bombs Comes With The Mother Of All Price Tags Too
If you were asked what the largest and most powerful bomb there was in history, you’d probably think of the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay or the Tsar Bomba, which was developed by the Soviet Union in 1961, over 2,000 times as powerful as those dropped […]
College Kid Designs An Atomic Bomb In Dorm Room
The good old college days. When you look back at your own college life as a teen, you were either the kid who loved studying, getting all those A’s, or that party jock varsity kid enjoying all the free-flowing booze. There’s a lot of in-betweens to those categories—the Invisibles, those music-loving band kids, those who […]
Russian Weapons Of War: Skyfall, Checkmate, and Orion
With tensions mounting along the Ukrainian-Russian border for the past few months, it’s important to know what Russian weapons there are to keep us all informed. The Russians sure have been busy developing what they believe will be decisive weapons in any conflict with the West. We know there are 100,000 plus Russian troops along […]